in this video were'r going to be covering three primary difference s between
Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism so you can understand the
difference coming right up
hey guys welcome back to the aspie world I'm Dan I've got Asperger syndrome
OCD ADHD and dyslexia I make weekly videos on autism and Asperger's so
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primary differences between Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism and
what the future may hold for a diagnosis of these conditions a big hello and
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the beginning of every single video on with the video so Asperger's syndrome
and high functioning autism probably one of the most requested videos I've had in
a long time people want to know the difference between Asperger's syndrome
and high functioning autism there is a difference between the two conditions
although they're very very similar now people get confused because sometimes
they'll say that they have high functioning autism but they also
have Asperger's syndrome or it is Asperger's syndrome or or Asperger's
syndrome is high functioning autism and it gets really confusing and people want
to know hey Dan is there a difference hey Dan do you know luckily my
girlfriend actually works in the field of autism and Asperger syndrome and she
worked specifically with kids with high functioning abilities and low
functioning abilities and she was able to help me clarify
little bit of the differences between the two conditions I've rallied up three
main differences or primary differences between Asperger's and high functioning
autism so that you'll be able to kind of have some insight and ideas if you're
trying to go through a diagnosis process or you're trying to look for signals or
science from your kid and - or personally you know a family member to
see if you'll be able to spot it so when you go to the doctor Institute to look
for a diagnosis you have some background and what you think it may be so what I'm
gonna do is I'm going to talk about Asperger's syndrome and how it differs
in high functioning autism through all the three points so it's all bear with
me here okay so in Asperger's syndrome the child does not show a delay in
language for somebody with Asperger's syndrome why would you the same as a NT
child most of the time but on the contrary for high functioning
autistic people there will be a massive delay in speech actually will be quite
quite big delay in speech and sometimes parents believe that they don't think
the children are ever going to speak but they do develop the speech eventually
but this is a primary one to look out for so if you suspect that a lot of
people get confused thinking that oh well because my child can talk and I
have good verbal skills that they're they're not autistic and then on the
spectrum which is untrue because you know you can have Asperger syndrome
which is an autism spectrum disorder and yet still have really good verbal
vocabulary just as a NT kid would okay so on to point number two for
Asperger's syndrome there'll be no delay in cognitive
abilities like like mathematics or music and actually in Asperger's syndrome
people excel in maths and music because the brain the part of the brain controls
both muscle music is the same part of the brain that is sometimes excelled in
people with Asperger syndrome and there's no delay there they actually
sometimes pick it up really early and there's the opposite of a delay you know
that they're super quick to pick up on math numbers you know numerology that
kind of stuff with high functioning autism there'll be a delay in in these
cognitive behaviors like mathematics and stuff you'll see there will be a delay
in this cognitive behavior or development for like mathematics or
music or anything cognitive related especially in school
and education you will see a quite a big delay normally in children with
high functioning autism okay I'm point number three people with Asperger's
syndrome have a usually above average and quite high IQ which means that they
excel in areas like maths and science and and creative arts and music and
things like that and they almost become obsessed with these these specific skill
sets that they they know really really well again it's all to do with how the
brain works creatively mathematically scientifically analytically but with
high functioning autistic people usually they're about average with the same
IQ as a neurotypical person in the school whereas somebody with Asperger syndrome
would actually excel above them and be more intellectually equipped like for
things like science and maths and stuff which I find quite fascinating and I
myself I'm a scientist or not that's kind of cool and I love maths as well
which is crazy and I never thought I would love math but I do but it's crazy
that being said they are the three differences but to me looking at it both
the similarities between Asperger's and high functioning autism are so so
greater than the differences I don't know that we really need to classify
them as being different because sometimes you know some people may not
follow those specific three criteria I mean this is just typically talking
about how they classify the two this is from a diagnostic process of the dsm-5
but in terms of their similarities they're super similar you know that
there's always social issues social impairment they can't understand the you
know certain verbal stimuli that they can't get flow of conversation you know
all the things that somebody with Asperger's syndrome and high functioning
autism can relate so much together and you know you it's really difficult to
really tell them apart so I don't think like the having
those two classifications is going to go on much longer which is why in the
diagnosis using the dsm-5 they actually amalgamated them all into just autism
spectrum conditions or disorders now so ASC and ASD so rather than having
Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism don't just say that the person
has an autism spectrum condition and just diagnosing with that and the
severity is on a scale so you can judge it via the scale which i think is a
better way maybe of doing that that being said Asperger's and
high functioning autism are still very relative and important diagnosis
nomenclature if you'd like to learn more about autism
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